\ , JðÆéN ('l ell me) szr. Is it good or bad?" . did not constitute disorderly conduct. By eight-twenty, twenty-five uni- formed volunteers who were scheduled to show up for duty that evening were mustering in the court) ard outside the precinct house. One of their officers caIled them to attention, took the roIl, shouted "At ease!," and then dssigned walkie-talkies and posts to those who were going out on foot, and radios and car numbers to those who were going out on motor patrol, while six mounties (wearIng helmets and spurs) set off for the Claremont stables. \Ve were invited to ride in Car No. 1, with the Park unit's commanding officer and only colonel-Joseph Siegel, a steel-gray-haired, bespectacled owner and operator of mid-Manhattan real estate. Colonel Siegel told us before his car started off that he had served as a volunteer in the CIty Patrol Corps in Central Park during the early nine- teen-forties, when 11lany regular police- 11len went to war and volunteers were needed to take their places. "'The City Patrol Corps was disbanded at the end . of the Second \\1 orld \Var," he went on. "I joined the Central Park auxil- iary-police unit when it was formed, a little before the outbreak of the Korean war. \Ve haven't missed a week of patroIling in the last twenty years." Colonel Siegel sat in the front of CaI No. I-it was his own car, a black ()ldsmobile 98, outfitted with a radio and with a red light on its roof-next to the driver, Lieutenant Arthur Elm- endorf, who is a truck driver from up- per Manhattan, and we sat in back, with Captain Charles Greenberg, a Brooklyn lawyer, who said he had joined the auxiliary police because "you've got to do something to justify . " H your eXIStence. e went on to ex- plain, "It's a civic requirement for eVt'f) New Yorker to do some volun- teer work, whether it's with the Red Cross, the Bov Scouts, or the auxiliary police. 'This IS what I feel I can do to make this city a better place." \Ve left the precinct house at fight- thirty and drove through the Park, stopping first at Seventy-second Street 29 -.=5> and the \Vest Drive, where two volun- teer patrohnen were standing. They snapped to c::tttention when Colonel Sie- 1 k I " H " . .. " ge spo e to t1e111. ow s It gOlng he Inquired. "Absolutely nothing hap- pening, thank God, sir," one of the11l replied as both saluted the Colonel. After a few pleasantries, we drove on. 'There was a fair amount of vehicular traffic in the Park, but only a few stroIlers (half a dozen people, one dog, two cats) were ahroad Our neAt stop was the inteIsection of the Center Drive and the East Drive, where two volunteers were giving instructions to a man in a car with Pennsylvania li- cense plates. 'The Pennsylvanian appar- ently had no idea that the patrolmen were part-time amateurs, and said "'Thank }' OU, Officers" before driving off. \Ve proceeded to Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, where two volun- teers were standing and chatting. "Nothing to report en thIs post, sir. Everything's very quiet," one volunteer told Colonel Sieg-e] as both '- saluted. "\Ve'll see you later," Colo-